We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS and OPNsense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It can expand easily."
"Fortigate represents a really scalable way of delivering perimeter network security, some level of layer 7 security, WAF, and also a way to create a meshed ADVPN solution."
"The solution is highly scalable because they have devices that can handle a large amount of traffic."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"Fortinet FortiGate's reliability is valuable."
"It's simple to use in terms of inbound and outbound traffic management."
"I find filtering traffic, filtering web traffic, session traffic, and managing the network as valuable features."
"The customer service and support team are excellent."
"What I like about this solution, is that it is the only solution that currently offers VPN for clients."
"We found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"All networks are security-driven, we get throughputs and security. We feel that the people at Fortinet are easy to deal with from a support standpoint. If they need to jump in and help us, they're very willing to do that. Their email filtering, their data loss prevention, their intrusion prevention, type of products in the newest OSs has been outstanding."
"A good network security system for medium-sized businesses with an excellent GUI interface that gives a graphic view of network status."
"Firewall and overall management are valuable features."
"OPNsense is easy to scale when running on the hardware."
"The most valuable features of OPNsense are the GUI and frequent updates."
"The most valuable feature is the Dual WAN in OPNSense, which offers advanced capabilities."
"The VPN server feature is the most valuable. It is integrated with Radius and AAA for doing accounting and authentication. Insight view is also an important feature for me at this time. It allows me to assess our network traffic. I also like the firewall feature. The BSD kernel has a packet filter. It is one of the most solid frameworks for firewalls. Its user interface is one of the best interfaces I have used."
"The interface and the dashboard are the most valuable features of this solution."
"It's open source."
"The initial implementation process is simple."
"It has an open license. It works very well, and there is an update every month."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"To some degree, it's almost a question as to why some of this stuff isn't simpler. For example, for an AP deployment, while it's integrated, the number of steps that you have to go through in order to get the AP up, seems like a lot."
"Its price could be better."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the protection, it did not prevent us from being attacked. Additionally, Fortinet FortiGate could provide more features for WAF devices. I should not have to purchase two solutions, it would be a benefit to combine these features into one solution."
"The room for improvement is about the global delivery time period. Usually I need to wait for almost one month to deliver it overseas. So if you can shorten the deliver time it'd be great."
"The central management can improve in Fortinet FortiOS. It is sometimes difficult to manage all the devices."
"Fortinet FortiOS can improve by limiting the need for the CLI and GUI combination. The more functions they can have on the GUI and less on CLI would be helpful."
"Some features I have found to be hidden and cannot be accessed through the graphical user interface, you can only access them through the command-line interface(CLI). All the features should be accessible through the graphical user interface."
"The signature discs, compared to Palo Alto, aren't as good. It takes more time to get the signature updates."
"The solution could improve by making the dashboard easier to use."
"The solution is good, but they have poor marketing in Nigeria. They need to market their product better."
"The support is not very good, but the product is stable so it is not so much of a problem."
"FortiOS's bandwidth and interface could be improved."
"The support for OPNsense is good because we have documents available on the internet. The support could improve a little."
"The solution would not be suitable for anything large-scale."
"You will need additional training before you can actually start to use it."
"We did not like the fact that you have to configure everything with the graphic user interface. We have used other firewalls, such as FortiGate, that you can configure via code. OPNsense is not easy to integrate. When you are deploying via GitHub or another source repository, this is not possible. That's one thing we didn't like much."
"Its interface should be a little bit better."
"The IPS solution could be more reliable."
"There is room for improvement in SSL inspection."
"I would like better documentation concerning the provided packages and their integration."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while OPNsense is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OPNsense writes "Robust network security and management offering a user-friendly interface, open-source flexibility, and cost-effectiveness, with challenges regarding initial setup and the absence of official support". Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Fortinet FortiWeb, Darktrace and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and IPFire. See our Fortinet FortiOS vs. OPNsense report.
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